An electromechanical item which accepts and systematically retains digital input data in such a manner as to facilitate the rapid recovery of stored information. The item may or may not consist of disk(s) some of which are removable, hard, removable disk packs, fixed disks, or removable flexible, each surface coated with a material susceptible to spot magnetization, integral writing, a drive motor and its mechanical linkage, and data translating heads for impressing on or removing from the disk surface data in digital form. the item is a component of an electronic computer. see also, magnetic drum, data storage; core memory unit.
Classification: Other storage units, nesoi
NSN 6685-00-371-8802
NSN 5965-00-088-1722
NSN 5835-01-584-8538
NSN 6650-01-483-0938
NSN 6150-00-279-6360
NSN 5990-01-258-3848
NSN 5965-00-471-5018
NSN 6105-01-024-6541
NSN 6145-00-409-6844
NSN 5895-01-556-9198
NSN 6610-00-708-7330
NSN 5960-01-628-2760